The Higher Criticism (HC) statistic of the P-values \(p_1,\ldots ,p_n\)  is defined by [1]}
\(\mathrm {HC}_{n}^* \equiv \max _{1 \le i \le n \gamma _0} \sqrt{n} \frac{i/n - p_{(i)}}{\sqrt{p_{(i)}\left(1-p_{(i)}\right)}},\) 
